Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odds for the game are still about the same as before the first match, despite the fact that Providence won that one, 6-3. The Crimson is again a favorite to defeat a sophomore team which has easily set down three straight Ivy League sextets...
...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
...Crimson JV wrestling squad avenged last year's defeat by soundly defeating the freshman team, 19 to 10, in the I.A.B. last night...
...working of the scholarly process which he cannot readily attain through lectures and text-books. It can require him to articu-late his ideas and arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts to obscure his lack of real insight or awareness, and thereby prod him into a modicum of honest, and rigorous thinking. There does not appear to be any educational substitute for re-examination of one's assertions in a critical light...
There will be four or five top-flight teams, however, which Harvard must play this year, each one eager to upset the favorite and to avenge last year's defeat...